Special Exhibits
Several exciting, inspiring special quilt exhibits will be available
for your enjoyment. These include both national traveling exhibits and
some from our own group of talented quilters. We hope you will be inspired!
Alzheimer’s:
Forgetting Piece by Piece
Alzheimer’s: Forgetting Piece by Piece” is a beautiful
and touching exhibit of 52 extraordinary art quilts about Alzheimer’s
disease that is traveling throughout the United States, inspired by quilter
and teacher Ami Sims.
The
work of 54 quilt artists from 30 states and New Zealand is represented
in the exhibit. The artists, many internationally renowned, offer
poignant interpretations of the Alzheimer’s experience in fiber. Themes
include imaginings of an existence stripped of memory and learning;
gritty illustrations of the anger, frustration, and stress of care-giving;
beautiful
tributes to loved ones taken by Alzheimer’s; and the anticipation
of a future cure. They are quilts of heartbreak and hope. Each artist
statement is paired with a fact about Alzheimer’s.
AQSG Red and Green Study Quilts Exhibit
There will be 25 quilts in this traveling exhibit, sized no more
than 50 inches on any side. The maker was asked to select a mid-19th
century red and green quilt (pieced, appliqued or combination) and “study” the
quilt by making a reproduction of the quilt. It may be a scaled-down
version or a part of the quilt.
Living Colour Exhibit.
This Exhibit was created by 48 members of the Northwest Pacific Quilt
Guild and is their interpretation of the phrase, Living Colour. (The
spelling of “colour” was chosen by their Canadian members.)
This is an exciting new show, with wonderful quilts made by many talented
artists. All the quilts are 24”x30”,with some hanging vertical
and some hanging horizontal.
Quilts with a Sense of Humor. Our own Minnesota Contemporary Quilters
are developing an exhibit featuring sense of humor quilts, which should
be both fun and creative.
Ode to the
Block of the Month (BOM) Quilts
Finally we will find out what happens to all
the blocks that Joanne Holtzknecht has been designing for us and various
contributing members are winning. (You know who you are!). The only real
catch on this exhibit is that those blocks must be in a quilt that is
completed!! Entry form for the BOM Exhibit.
2009 Quilter of the
Year
There will also
be a special exhibit featuring quilts from our Quilter of the Year, Sharlene
Jorgenson.
